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Women in the LAC Labor Market: The Remarkable 1990’s

Duryea, Suzanne; Edwards, Alejandra Cox; Ureta, Manuelita - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2001

We examine levels and trends of labor market outcomes for women in the 1990’s using household survey data for 18 Latin American countries covering several years per country. The outcomes we analyze include labor force participation rates, the distribution of employment of women across sectors...

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Ureta, Manuelita - In: Stata Technical Bulletin 1 (1992) 2

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Women in the Latin American Labor Market: The Remarkable 1990's

Duryea, Suzanne; Edwards, Alejandra Cox; Ureta, Manuelita - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002

In this paper, the authors examine levels and trends of labor market outcomes for women in the 1990¿s using household survey data for 18 Latin American countries covering several years per country. The outcomes we analyze include labor force participation rates, the distribution of employment...

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Las mujeres en el mercado laboral de América Latina y el Caribe en los años 90: Una década extraordinaria

Duryea, Suzanne; Edwards, Alejandra Cox; Ureta, Manuelita - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002

En el presente documento se ilustran los diferentes patrones de participación de la mujer en el mercado laboral en países de América Latina y el Caribe (ALC), y se investigan los factores determinantes subyacentes de los diferentes patrones. Las autoras examinen los niveles y tendencias en...

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International migration, remittances, and schooling: evidence from El Salvador

Edwards, Alejandra Cox; Ureta, Manuelita - In: Journal of Development Economics 72 (2003) 2, pp. 429-461

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Incidencia y duración del desempleo en áreas urbanas del Paraguay

Ureta, Manuelita - In: Estudios de Economia 25, 1 Year 1998, pp. 51-70

Este artículo presenta un análisis empírico, para el mercado laboral urbano de Paraguay, de las dos dimensiones básicas del fenómeno de desempleo: incidencia y duración. El análisis cubre las áreas urbanas del Paraguay y se basa en la Encuesta de Hogares de 1996, los datos más...

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The Importance of Lifetime Jobs in the U.S. Economy, Revisited.

Ureta, Manuelita - In: American Economic Review 82 (1992) 1, pp. 322-35

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Women at Work: Challenges for Latin America Title: Mujeres y trabajo en América Latina: Desafíos para las políticas laborales

Lund, Frances; Duryea, Suzanne; Puentes, Esteban; … - Inter-American Development Bank

"Women at Work: Challenges for Latin America" presents a series of empirical studies that use household survey data from Latin America to analyze trends in female labor force participation rates, the impact of trade liberalization on women's work, tendencies in gender wage differentials and...

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Measurement Error in Schooling: Evidence from Samples of Siblings and Identical Twins

Light, Audrey; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso - In: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 5 (2006) 1

Abstract The value of sibling data for identifying the causal effect of schooling on wages hinges on our ability to eliminate biases due to the mismeasurement of schooling. Analysts typically assume errors in schooling reports are "classical." In this study, we use generalized method of moments...

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Measurement Error in Schooling: Evidence from Samples of Siblings and Identical Twins

Light, Audrey; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso - In: Contributions in Economic Analysis & Policy 5 (2006) 1

The value of sibling data for identifying the causal effect of schooling on wages hinges on our ability to eliminate biases due to the mismeasurement of schooling. Analysts typically assume errors in schooling reports are "classical." In this study, we use generalized method of moments to...

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